[ga] Re: PUID

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:55:57PM -0500,
 kidsearch <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 36 lines which said:

> Can someone translate this to english for me.

Of course, since I am French, I can be wrong, but the original
document seems to be in Shakespeare's and Ballmer's language.
 
> http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/4228

It describes an unique identifier for the *format* of a document (not
for the document itself, like DOI or URI could do). It gives no detail
and does not indicate why existing systems like MIME type
(http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html) are
insufficient.

The registry
(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/PUID/proPUIDSearch.asp?status=new)
seems extremely poor. Very common formats like Atom (RFC 4287) or RSS
or C source files or Relax NG compact syntax are missing (while
they have a MIME type).